Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 300

There is still a difference between the old adobe bricks and the current bricks. Before the adobe bricks come out of the kiln, they have to be soaked in cold water on the top of the kiln. The bricks fired in this way are dark green in color and are particularly strong and durable.

However, the firing of clay bricks is too troublesome. It takes a day and a night for a brick kiln, and then people have to guard the top of the kiln to soak it in water.This soaking process is more cumbersome. It is not enough to just pour water on it, but you must always control the heat and the amount of water.If too much water is used, the fire of the kiln is likely to be extinguished, and the bricks will be burned into stubble.If you use too little, you will get red bricks.

Therefore, it takes at least three to five days to burn the bricks in a kiln, which is painstaking and laborious.In order to catch up with the work of those kilns, no one has done this for a long time.

Now the bricks used for construction in the town are all red bricks, and it is understandable for the younger generation not to recognize them.

According to Lao Niutou, in the early years Liujiagou not only fired earthen pots, but also fired bricks, and this big guy should have been fired at that time.Ordinary bricks will not be so outrageous even if they are burnt. At most, the bottom part is glazed bricks, and the upper part is still good.It can be said that this situation is rarely encountered. It is estimated that when the ground was broken, the land master forgot to burn paper and burn incense, so all the bricks in a kiln were burned.As for the censer bowl that Liu Qihua just dug up, it must have been mud for the land master.

The young people naturally don't believe in those ghosts, but they all know that the older generation believe it very seriously. Although they don't think so, they don't open their mouths to argue.

"Hurry up and fill the playground, dig such a deep pit, if the students fall, it will be difficult." Er Mazi saw that it was no problem for the pit to remain on the playground, and ordered everyone to fill it up again.

They had a lot of strength when digging, but now they feel that they have no strength after being hit by the old bull head.However, filling is much lighter than digging. In less than 10 minutes, more than half of the pit was filled.

After digging out such a large glazed brick, the pit will definitely not be filled, and soil must be pulled outside.Considering this situation, Liu Junhao went back early and pulled his cart over to load the soil.With a large number of hands, the work can be done quickly. After half an hour, the playground will return to its original appearance.

However, everyone disagreed with the whereabouts of the glazed brick.

The old bull head meant to find another place to bury it, but just as he said it, the young people objected one after another.Digging and filling, filling and digging, there is no such trouble.

"Xiaohao, how about this. Let's tidy up the bricks and set them up in your yard as a rockery?" Mr. Wang is very fond of strange stones, and he thinks the bricks look very aesthetic.With a little modification, it is certainly not inferior to those in the park.

"What are you doing in my yard? It still takes up space..." Liu Junhao scratched his head, and finally refused.He is quite disappointed now, he thought this thing was a rare treasure, who knew it was just a burnt brick.After digging for a long time, I only got a pile of waste bricks. If I say I am not disappointed, I am definitely lying to myself.

"You..." Lao Wang was completely speechless. He knew that this person didn't understand art at all, so telling him was playing the piano to the cow.

"Move it to the side of the ditch, it's good to be a rockery," Professor Zhao also thought the shape of this thing was very strange.

"Okay, then listen to what you two have to say." Anyway, it's better to put it on the playground to take up space, so it's better to move it.After knowing that it was a brick, Liu Junhao no longer cherished it.It happened that the cart was here, so he greeted him and asked Liu Qiyong and others to help transport it back.

The six people did not use any other aids, they only grabbed the edges and corners next to them with their hands and easily removed them.At this time, someone thought of a question: "Why are bricks so light?"

"It's purely normal," the old Niutou explained with a laugh, "After the bricks are burnt, the inside is empty and full of air bubbles. I have even seen bricks floating on the water."

Isn't that the iron palm floating on the water?A group of people were sweating when they heard it.

After the bricks were delivered to the door, Mr. Wang began to plan.According to him, this thing should be placed in the middle of Huotou Pond. Only when there are mountains and water can it be called a good scenery.

Of course, before that, you have to go up the mountain to find some stones to match.

Lao Wang wanted to go up the mountain immediately, but Liu Junhao didn't move even if he said it, mainly because he was too tired.

"You boy..." Without help, the old man could only find another opportunity.

Seeing that it was still early, Liu Junhao invited the two of them into the courtyard for tea. Who knew that just after pouring the hot tea, his cell phone started ringing non-stop.

"Xiaohao, fossils have been found in the village, hurry up and come here." Er Mazi called urgently when the phone was connected.

"Uncle Guangxi, don't embarrass me, I know that thing is a glazed brick." Liu Junhao didn't know whether to laugh or cry.It's a bit embarrassing to be teased by the villagers after only admitting a mistake once.

"You brat, what are you doing? I really found fossils. Didn't you dig out a lot of black stones when you dug the sweet potato well for me the year before last? The experts from the city saw the stones and said they were It's a fossil. You kid, hurry up and take a look..."

"Really" Liu Junhao still couldn't believe it.

"Believe it or not, you'll know if you come and have a look." Er Mazi immediately hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"What's the matter?" Professor Zhao leaned over and asked, he had vaguely heard the mention of fossils on the phone just now.

"Uncle Guangxi said that fossils were found in his house, let me go there now."

"No way, can fossils be found in his home?" The two old men obviously didn't believe it.

"Let's go, let's go to the village and have a look." Although Liu Junhao didn't believe it, he still planned to go there because of what he said.As for the black stones that Er Mazi just mentioned, Liu Junhao remembered them very clearly.At that time, when digging a sweet potato well for his family, when the dug was more than two meters deep, a large nest of black stones suddenly dug out from the soil.Both of them are very strange, this kind of black stone is rare in Liujiagou.

"Could it be iron ore?" Er Mazi thought about getting rich all day long, and when he saw this thing, he thought that he might have found a vein of mine.

His guess is not unfounded. In the early 80s, the province sent experts to investigate this area.I don't know what's going on, but not long after the expert left, people spread rumors that iron ore was discovered in Daqingshan, and the province was planning to develop it immediately.All within a radius of more than ten kilometers was designated as a mining area, and all the people in the town moved to other places.The news was spread in an orderly manner, and even the amount of subsidy for each family was clearly stated.At that time, the road in Daqingshan had not been repaired, and the news was blocked. The rumors became more and more outrageous. Many people thought that they would move away anyway, and the crops would definitely be destroyed by then.So I didn't even care about the crops in the field, and just waited for the subsidy from above.

Later, the leaders of the village felt that the situation was serious and sent people to the village to refute the rumors.But even so, there are still many people who firmly believe that there are iron mines in Daqingshan.

Liu Junhao laughed straight that he wanted to get rich and went crazy, and finally pulled all these strange stones up with a basket.Er Mazi didn't give up, and even showed some stones to the local blacksmith afterwards.It was said that the stone was not iron ore at all, so he completely dismissed the idea.

When they arrived at Ermazi's house, a large group of people had already gathered there, and the expert was standing among the crowd with a fist-sized stone in his hand and explained: "This fossil should belong to an extinct marine brachiopod fossil. , it is preliminarily speculated to be 'Shi Yan', this kind of creature probably lived in the late Permian to early Jurassic, with a history of about [-] million years ago. Its individuals are generally about three centimeters long, and it is a common marine species on the seabed. Raw shells, there were many such creatures at that time, and after they died, they cemented each other and became rocks. After the vicissitudes of life, the later generation became land, and those rocks were weathered one after another. After the shell fossils were stripped out, they rolled down into the soil and piled up for burial. stand up."

It's really a fossil... Liu Junhao realized that he didn't know what to say.It's really "intentionally planting flowers but not blooming, unintentionally planting willows and willows to make shade", the incident has twists and turns, and finally ended in comedy.

He also squatted on the ground and picked up a small piece of coin-sized stone to observe. When he dug the sweet potato well, he felt that this thing was ordinary and did not see anything.The surface is gray-black, with a slight bulge in the middle, with some fin-like markings.Other than that, it's completely stone-like.Now he is a little suspicious of whether the expert is fooling everyone, as if he can't see the characteristics of the fossil.

"Expert, is this thing worth money?" As soon as he heard about the age, Er Mazi muttered: Could it be that the ancestors really appeared.He planned to sell the fossils he got, and he should be able to make a small profit.

"Hehe, fossils are non-renewable resources, and it is difficult to measure them with money," the expert smiled and shook his head, and then explained, "Shiyan is a common marine invertebrate, and it is a standard fossil for stratum identification." , At present, many places in our city have discovered it, which has certain scientific research value in the field of geology, and it is not bad to keep it for yourself as a souvenir."

A certain scientific research value means that the value is very low, not worth much at all.Er Mazi understood what he said, but he still didn't give up.Many stone swallow fossils have been found in other places, but Liujiagou is definitely the only one, which can be sold as souvenirs.

"It seems that I also dug this thing when I dug the foundation of my house. There are tens of thousands of them. At that time, my dad thought they were piled up in the yard and got in the way, so they pulled them into the ditch behind the village with a cart. It's already..." Liu Qihua suddenly said at this time, his family renovated the house a few years ago and dug a lot from the ground.

"No, I dug it out when I was planing the vegetable garden. It's exactly the same as this one. Why does it look familiar?" Liu Junqi interjected.

Hearing what others said, Er Mazi completely dispelled that little thought.

Although the process of discovering fossils was a bit tortuous, it was a worthwhile trip.Reporter Guo deliberately took a lot of photos before leaving, but he also said that this news may be difficult to get, at most he will write a newsletter report on the Internet.

Liu Guangju didn't care so much, he grabbed Liu Junhao as soon as he sent the experts away and said, "Xiaohao, go back and take a few photos with your camera and post them on the Internet, saying that a large number of paleontological fossils have been found in Liujiagou, and you call on everyone to come here to pick up fossils. "

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